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So Long, London

21 Apr

So we’ve left London. Nyan and Daddy are having a sojourn in the US for a couple weeks before they join Mommy on the other side of the globe to start their latest adventure. First, though, we had to get out of London, and most importantly, we had to say farewell to our friends – especially Nyan’s friends. So a week or so ago, we threw a party at a nearby pub. A lot of his friends from school showed up. Here’s our boy with a few of them. Don’t worry, all the grumpy faces were just toddlers putting on a show for the camera:

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The party included plenty of food and toys and, yes, chocolate – so by late afternoon, all those kids had a lot of energy to burn off. Which they did by running around the back garden at the pub, including up and down the wheelchair ramp (the one with a sign that says, explicitly, that it’s not to be used for children to play on. Oops). Several videos from that, including lots of running and screaming:

Nyan Thomas, going against the grain:

 

And here he is giving cuddles (and vamping for the camera) to one of his besties, Adam:

 

 
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Posted by on April 21, 2014 in Photos, Video

 

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A Day at the Park, and the Mall

16 Apr

Uncle Jeff came to visit a couple weeks ago, the same time that the former site of the 2012 Summer Olympics was formally opening as a public park. It was a cloudy, windy day, but Jeff and Daddy took Nyan out for a day of fun.

Here we are at the tube station:

At the park itself, Nyan ran around in the grassy fields, strolled along the banks of the River Lea, oohed and aahed at the tractors and trucks he saw, and oh yes: climbed to the top of the Helter Skelter with Jeff and took a ride down. Here they are, about to head up:

And some action shots of them coming down. Nyan doesn’t exactly look thrilled, but he was all smiles as soon as they came to a rest:

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All that fun helped us build up a good appetite, so we retreated to the nearby Westfield shopping mall – a huge place that happens to feature a microbrewery that Jeff wanted to check out. We got a couple of drinks and relaxed on some couches while we waited for our pizza to arrive. This is Nyan, waiting:

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He also waved at people walking by outside:

 

Finally, pizza:

Then it was time to head home. While Nyan insisted he wasn’t tired, his expression on the train ride home tell a different story, I’d say.

 
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Posted by on April 16, 2014 in Photos, Video

 

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Nyan Thomas Explains It All

13 Apr

A quick video in which our hero explains how a tractor works. In his own language, and using his own rules of engineering. Smart kid, in his way.

 
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Posted by on April 13, 2014 in Video

 

Sunday Morning Music

11 Apr

It was a musical Sunday morning at Nyan Thomas World Headquarters, with Bowie playing on the radio and a visiting Uncle Jeff fashioning a microphone out of aluminum foil. Did Nyan enjoy it? He did. Especially since the song playing was all about one of Nyan’s current interests: space.

 

And here the boy spends about four straight minutes running around in circles, intentionally making himself dizzy. Silly boy:

 
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Posted by on April 11, 2014 in Video

 

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Nyan Thomas, not sleeping

09 Apr

The other afternoon Daddy was trying to put Nyan down for a nap by reading him a story and then, well, telling him to nap. Our young man was having none of it, and instead just laid there making silly sounds. Daddy pulled out his iPhone and, in the darkened room, took a video, which you see here (with a boost in the gain post-shooting).  It’s not much from a visual standpoint, but the songs and his general silliness certainly capture a moment.

 

After a few minutes of this nonsense, by the way, Daddy told the lad to go to sleep, and then left the room. Nyan talked to himself and sang for another 20 minutes or so before falling asleep for two hours. All’s well that ends well.

 

 

 
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Posted by on April 9, 2014 in Video

 

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Bike.

08 Apr

Or scooter, to be more precise. But yes, our boy has one of those little scooters that’s all the rage among the toddling set. He loves it, but as these videos attest, the young man still has a bit of work to do before he starts scooting down the street at top speed.

 

Note that in the second video, he seems more interested in examining how the back wheel works than in actually riding the thing. That’s his engineering mind at work…

 
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Posted by on April 8, 2014 in Video

 

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Nyan Thomas in Chipping Ongar

30 Mar

What’s a Chipping Ongar, you ask? Well. Chipping Ongar is a small rural town in the middle of nowhere, about half an hour or so to the north of us. The London Underground (a.k.a. the Tube, a.k.a. the subway system) used to run all the way out to this lovely little town, but low ridership meant the end of that; the line now ends closer in to the city proper. But some railway buffs (and there are many on this island) took over the stretch of rail, and on weekends and holidays, they run a pair of trains — one decommissioned commuter line, one classic steam train — back and forth on a 15-minute journey between two old stations.

Our boy loves trains, so we figured, why not take a ride on the Chipping-Ongar Railway? It was a (predictably) good call as it was a fun family day.

Here’s the lad, before the ride:

And here he is on the ride itself:

 

He was very concerned that the train window was dirty (and also wanted to drink Daddy’s coffee):

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Some photos of the lad on the train (and a bonus shot of Mommy too):

When Nyan wasn’t riding the rails, he was riding Daddy’s shoulders:

 

A few random non-Nyan shots:

 

Oh, and yes, we took a family selfie (which Nyan decided to photo-bomb):

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Besides the train fun, we had a lovely lunch at a local pub called The Cock. Nyan had fun spreading the sugar on the table (to the management, sorry about that, but at least I managed to stop him before he mixed salt into the sugar bowl!) and took a wander around the pub, as you can see here:

 

 
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Posted by on March 30, 2014 in Photos, Video

 

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The House is Moving!

27 Mar

Last night, a happy Nyan was spinning around the kitchen and being silly, pretending he was a space rocket. So Daddy whipped out his camera and took a quick video:

 

Yes, friends, that’s our boy, getting to know the concept of being dizzy after spinning around. We absolutely love the look of wonderment on his face as he sees the room spin and he declares “The house is moving!”

 

 
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Posted by on March 27, 2014 in Video

 

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Nyan Thomas Draws an Elephant

26 Mar

And a duck, and a baby octopus and momma octopus (or ‘opy-us’ as he says):

 

The young man also repairs a space rocket while Skyping with Grandma and Grandpa L., then asks them to turn the camera so he can watch a boat passing by their Florida condo:

 

And finally: the other day, hanging out with Daddy, the phone rang. “Oh! Who’s that?” he asked. “Well, I bet it’s Mommy calling to say she’s coming home. Here, let me walk over and get the…” Before Daddy could get it, though, Nyan raced over, picked up the phone and answered, “Hello Mommy!” It was indeed Mommy, and he proceeded to tell her about his day, while also picking up one of his toy phones and having a two-phoned conversation with her. Then he hung up the phone before Daddy could talk to her.

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Posted by on March 26, 2014 in Video

 

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After-School Fun

25 Mar

Some photos and videos from the past week or so, giving a glimpse of what our little man gets up to at the end of a long day of learning and playing at school:

Here he is on the walk home, deciding to have a stroll around the outside of the local library, and check out a passing fire engine (which looked, to Daddy’s eyes, like a normal black SUV. I guess Nyan  has better eyesight than Daddy.)

 

Some photos from various walks home, including Nyan helpfully putting away the recycling bins, and posing on the “Grandma Tree,” which is a tree stump that came down in a windstorm last October; a few weeks later, Grandma L. came to visit, and she and Nyan posed for photos on the tree. To this day, every time we pass the tree – which is twice a day, as it’s right on the way to school – he talks about how he stood on the tree with Grandma.

This video shows Nyan playing around in the entryway after arriving at home – pulling bottles out of boots (which are there to help the boots retain their shape) and then declaring, “I’m going away, Daddy. I got to leave,” before putting on various boots and shoes.

 

And he loves to wear that monkey hat, but it can sometimes lead to an unfortunate case of hat hair:

 
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Posted by on March 25, 2014 in Photos, Video

 
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